Sheet-glass-drawing furnace.



-PATENTEDJAN 29, 1907. J. GEORGE s; G; M. SHORTLE. SHEET GLASS 'DRAWING PURNACB.

APPLIQATION FILED AUG. 19, 1904.

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JAPHUS GEORGE, OF WILCOX, PENNSYLVANIA, AND CHRISTOPHER M. SHORILE, OF BERNHARDS BAY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO -NEWKIRK GLASS COMPANY, OF PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA, A CORPORATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA, I l i sHEET-eLAss-DRAn/ma FunNAcE,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led August 19, 1904.' Serial No. 221,430

No. 842,399. Phantasien, 29, 19o?.

lsides of the pot near the top thereof to revent4 radiation from the interior heat of t e nose To all whom Lt may concern: l

Be it known that we, JAPHUs GEORGE and Onnis'i'ornnn M. SHORTLE, citizens of the United States, of Wilcox, Elk county, State,

of Pennsylvania, and of Bernhards Bay, 1n the county of Oswego and State of New York, respectively, have invented certain new and useful nipiipveinents in Sheet-Glass-Drawing Furnaces; Ahind we do hereby declare that the iollowi ng isa full, clear, and 'exact description thereof, reference being had to the accom' anying drawings, and to the letters of re erence marked thereon,'which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvementsin apparatus for drawing glass sheets from molten glass, and refers' more specifically to a noifel combination with' a glass-melting furnace of a drawing pot or receptacle from which the glass sheets are drawn.

The invention consists in the matters hereinciter set forth, and more particularly 'pointed out in the appended claims.

An apparatus embodying our invention embraces, in general terms, in combination with a melting-furnace of any desired construction, a hollow nose or extension provided in its top wall or cap with a draftopening,` a. self-feeding drawlngot of relatlvely small ca )acity located wit 'n the nose in line with said drait-openin ,intowhich the molten glass is fed from the urnacelthro'ugh suitable conduits and from the molten glass in which pot the sheets are drawn upwardly;

in the drawings, Figure 1 is a fragmentary vertical section of" a glass-meltingfurnace and itsnose, showing in cross-sectionour iinproved self-feeding pot in ,position therein.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the nose and potI taken lengthwise ofthepot. Fig. 3 isa similar section showing e. s i of the-pot. '1'

As shown in the drawings, Adesignates a glass-melting furnace, and B designates the bellow nose of the Afurnace, provided in its cap or top wall R with a draft-opening Ba.

t) designates an open-.topped drawing-pot, located within sald noseln line with the draftopening end froni which the glass is drawnv u wardly toiorm'thie sheet D. The pct fills t e nose from. end to end thereof and the cap or top wall of the nose nts cios'ely against the 0 with its upper e glitly-modiiiedform 'proper consistency `lor drawing by the comactin directly upon the formed sheet D Mo tenglass 1s fed from the melting-fur'- nace A tothe drawing-pot C through the medium of one or more conduits E, which open through the wall c ofthe furnace adjacent to the .nose below the levelof the molten glasstherein and incline downwardly and communicate at their lower ends with the drawingpot through thelottom wall thereof. The drawing-pot is supported from the -bottoln The piers or columns b alsov support the sel- 7'o feeding conduits E and for this y urpose are made of some wldth and provide with open- .wall or floor of the nose through th'e medium 65 ings through which said conduits extend-in' the manner' shown in Fig. 1.

' The drawing-[pot O is shown as supported `7 5 ge ator near the leve of the upper surface of the cap or topwall B of the nose so that the level of the molten, glass in said drawingot may be brought closely to the topof said) nose.

ets, which are supporte as'herein shown, upon the up erniargins of the longitudinal side walls o the drawing-pot andfthlough 8o F F designate coolingipes or water-jack" which 'a cooling medim,`r such as Water, is 85 circulated to maintain temperature inthe space at the base of the formin -sheet sufciently low to cause the film cfg glass drawn upwardly from the body of the molten glass in the pot to take and retain' permanent form as soon as it emerges from the molten glass.

Heat is applied to the drawing-pot and its feeding-conduits to maintainA the glass in "a ustion of aburninggas directedinto said nose through the medium of suitable lpipes b2 Nb, .the pipes b2 extending thr'oug the end walls of the nose, the pipes b through the iront wallfand the pi es b* extending throu fh the bottom wal vthereof. The pipes il# Vb3 b4 receive gas from and constitutebranches of larger feeding-pipes or heads Bz LBs B, respectively, which may or may not be 

